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While at NATO I had a modest budget to help promote the organization in North America and Europe. I coordinated conferences, seminars, and visits with universities, civic organizations, service academies, nonprofit groups, sometimes the equivalent of well-intentioned knitting circles. I had the Danish Seaman’s Church visit once, several religious universities, and many European political parties and their youth wings. Most impressive in my memory was the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts—chartered to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1681 and a veteran unit of the Revolutionary War—all men, who filed into the largest room that could accommodate them at NATO, resplendent in red uniforms and epaulets. Each uniform was identical but displayed devices of their individual military service: US Marine Corps staff sergeant, US Air Force captain, US Army colonel, and so on. The company has an explicit public diplomacy mandate for “represent[ing] the Commonwealth and Nation on numerous overseas trips all over this world… contribut[ing] to the efforts of the Departments of State and Defense to further developing new friendships.” I sponsored publications with the US Military Academy, National Defense University, and the University of Copenhagen. Although we rarely worked with corporations, we did that, too: Microsoft, the BBC, and Lloyd’s of London all sponsored public events with NATO.
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See, for example, Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain (New York: Doubleday, 2012), 148–172.
See, for example, Timothy Garton Ash, “The Puzzle of Central Europe,” New York Review of Books, March 18, 1999.
Matthew Mosk and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, “While Aide Advised McCain, His Firm Lobbied for Georgia,” Washington Post, August 13, 2008.
See, for example, Ronald D. Asmus, “Europe’s Eastern Promise,” Foreign Affairs, January/February, 2008.
Ron Asmus, Opening NATO’s Door (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), xxix.
For more on the US policy scene, see, for example, James A. Smith, The Idea Brokers (Free Press, November 8, 1993).
Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack, “A War We Just Might Win,” New York Times, July 30, 2007.
Avik Roy, “How the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think Tank, Promoted the Individual Mandate,” Forbes, October 20, 2011.
Ron Asmus, A Little War that Shook the World (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 3.
See, for example, Richard Miniter, “Are George Soros’ Billions Compromising U.S. Foreign Policy?” Forbes, September 9, 2011.
Robert Mackey, “Glenn Beck Sees Soros as Iran Does,” The Lede blog, New York Times, November 12, 2010.
Scott Peterson, “Iran Uses Activists for Propaganda,” Christian Science Monitor, July 20, 2007.
Robin Wright, “Iran Frees U.S. Scholar from Prison,” Washington Post, August 22, 2007.
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Snyder, J.T. (2013). Nongovernmental Diplomacy. In: The United States and the Challenge of Public Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230390713_10
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